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From: jseymour@medar.com (James Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Launch and Switch Fields in the Task Structure
Keywords: multitasking launch switch system programming
Message-ID: <97@hdwr1.medar.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 17:21:53 GMT
References: <17933@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <963@boing.UUCP>
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In article <963@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>In article <17933@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnettj@pookie.crd.ge.com (Janet A Barnett) writes:
>>                                       ...  The SAS/C compiler manual
>>warns against this, indicating that the operating system does not
>>properly handle sharing of the coprocessor between tasks.
>
>This is absolute BS. Ever since WB1.3, the os has supported math coprocessors
>In a multitasking environment. ...
>

Thanks Dale.  See what happens when you speak (type?) before
thinking?  I should have recognized right off that the original
article must have been omitting something.  Today, I got lightly
flamed by an associate here at work for my first response to
Janet's original posting (asking CBM-type guys if Janet's
original posting was true).  *I* especially should have
known better, as I did extensive work implementing 68881 support
for a multi-tasking real-time industrial system a couple of
years ago.  Sigh...

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